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General Cable Corporation Stock Downgraded (BGC)

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NEW YORK (
TheStreet)
-- General Cable Corporation (NYSE:
BGC) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, generally higher debt management risk and disappointing return on equity.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 0.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 17.1%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.

Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 51.20% to $206.40 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, GENERAL CABLE CORP/DE has also modestly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 46.51%.

The debt-to-equity ratio of 1.07 is relatively high when compared with the industry average, suggesting a need for better debt level management. Along with the unfavorable debt-to-equity ratio, BGC maintains a poor quick ratio of 0.92, which illustrates the inability to avoid short-term cash problems.

The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Electrical Equipment industry and the overall market, GENERAL CABLE CORP/DE's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.

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General Cable Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes copper, aluminum, and fiber optic wire and cable products worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 83.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. General Cable has a market cap of $1.78 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and industrial industry. Shares are up 15.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.